It is all a matter of perspective. Maybe comparatively speaking, it is really easy. He doesn't require we sacrifice our first born children and fillet the skin from our bodies to achieve theosis, so thats something, right?

If a person was born blind I would not blame them for being unable to see the sun...

See where I'm going with this? Or, I suppose, I shouldn't say that God makes it so hard, so much as he lets it be hard. For some. Most? Any?

Didn't JamesR start a whole thread about this, but from the point of view of suffering? There was actually some good discussion there about it. I seem to recall that I thought Shanghaiski's reply was the best of the lot. But, that was just my opinion.

Hey guys, I heard that Karl Keating believes that only one of the three conditions (namely, faith and morals) is needed for a papal statement to be ex cathedra. I can hardly believe it, but I read it in black and white!

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"Christian America is finally waking up to what fraternities and biker gangs have known for years: hazing works!"

Hey guys, I heard that Karl Keating believes that only one of the three conditions (namely, faith and morals) is needed for a papal statement to be ex cathedra. I can hardly believe it, but I read it in black and white!

I have completed my goal for the day which was to post stupid meme pics in all the threads in politics which have been posted on in the last few days. I was going to fill the entire first page with TheTrisagion as the last poster, but a certain someone kept messing up my handiwork.

I have completed my goal for the day which was to post stupid meme pics in all the threads in politics which have been posted on in the last few days. I was going to fill the entire first page with TheTrisagion as the last poster, but a certain someone kept messing up my handiwork.

Had you notified me ahead of time of your nefarious plot, I would gladly have cooperated and assisted you in any way possible. As it was, you chose to go it alone and there are consequences for that.

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"May Thy Cross, O Lord, in which I seek refuge, be for me a bridge across the great river of fire. May I pass along it to the habitation of life." ~St. Ephraim the Syrian

I have completed my goal for the day which was to post stupid meme pics in all the threads in politics which have been posted on in the last few days. I was going to fill the entire first page with TheTrisagion as the last poster, but a certain someone kept messing up my handiwork.

Had you notified me ahead of time of your nefarious plot, I would gladly have cooperated and assisted you in any way possible. As it was, you chose to go it alone and there are consequences for that.

I have completed my goal for the day which was to post stupid meme pics in all the threads in politics which have been posted on in the last few days. I was going to fill the entire first page with TheTrisagion as the last poster, but a certain someone kept messing up my handiwork.

Had you notified me ahead of time of your nefarious plot, I would gladly have cooperated and assisted you in any way possible. As it was, you chose to go it alone and there are consequences for that.

You are dead to me.

DEAD TO ME, I SAY

Yeah...me too.

(No need to be so grouchy! Had lunch yet? Blood sugar a little low??)

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"May Thy Cross, O Lord, in which I seek refuge, be for me a bridge across the great river of fire. May I pass along it to the habitation of life." ~St. Ephraim the Syrian